I leave it to you if I wasn't justified in doing the best I could under the circumstances." Captain Trigger was not as fierce as he looked.

He could not keep the twinkle out of his eye.
"We will see about that," he managed to say with commendable gruffness.
"Assuming that your story is true, why are you in such a tremendous hurry to reach the United States?
Skipping out for some reason, eh ?" "Well," said the young man slowly, "you see, news is a long time getting out into the wilderness where I've been located for a couple of years.
We knew, of course, that there was a war on, but we didn't know how it was progressing.

Down here in this part of the world we have a war every two or three months, and we've got so used to having 'em over within a week or two that we just naturally don't pay much attention to them.
We don't even care who wins.

But a couple of months ago we got word up there that the United States had finally got into it with everybody under the sun, and that the Germans were bound to win if we didn't get a couple of million men across in pretty short order.

I am thirty years old, Captain, strong and healthy, and I'm a good American.